Duration : 35 minutes (accessible from 5 years old)

Technically light, this version enables a new encounter with dance for it adapts to any invested place and highlights it while inventing with it a true intimate relation.

For this latest creation, accessible from 5 years old, the choreographer Séverine Bidaud revisits the universe of tales.

Four dancers for three tales :”The Little Match Girl”, “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Ugly Duckling”.
One of the characters will travel more than the others do. In this way, as soon as the little merchant burns a match to warm herself in her sad nook, her imagination will enable her to enter and to interfere with the characters from the two other tales. The result is an immersion in a fantasy world, for little and grown-up kids, in a hip-hop spirit.
Dream and poetry give way to a burlesque universe where the sensitive and the absurd coexist. A symbolic and dreamlike journey to childhood  that questions the quest of « inner transformation».

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Choreography Séverine Bidaud

Choreography assistant Jane Carole Bidaud

2020 – 2021 interpretation : Sandra Geco , Amélie Jousseaume alternating with Séverine Bidaud, Cault NZelo, Clément James

Costumes Alice Touvet

Lights Esteban (Stéphane Loirat)

Composition of original soundtrack Clément Roussillat and Jean-Charles “Trippin’ Cloud” Zambo

Music selection : Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovsky : Swan Lake – OP20 N°13 « Dance of the little swans »
Tchaikovsky : Swan Lake – OP20 N°08 « Danse des petits coupes »
Tchaikovsky : Swan Lake – OP20 « Introduction»
Tchaikovsky : Swan Lake – OP20 N°10

Editing / Mastering soundtrack Xavier Bongrand

Helpful look Marjorie Kellen and Joëlle Iffrig

Thanks to Carlo Diaconale, Isabelle Job, Chloé Le Nôtre, Catherine Gamblin, Frank des Neiges and Audrey Bottineau 

Coproductions : The Department of Seine-Maritime, the Region of Haute-Normandie ; the city of Rouen (76); the city of Fauville-en-Caux and the Communauté de commune Cœur de Caux (76),  Initiative d’Artistes en Danses Urbaines – Fondation de France – La Villette, Paris 2015, the Dance Centre of Galion in Aulnay-sous-Bois (93).

Supports and artist residency : CHOREGE / Relais Culturel Régional of Pays de Falaise (14) 

Other support : ODIA Normandy ; ADAMI, an artists and performers corporation that manages and develops their rights in France and abroad in order to earn a fairer remuneration for their talent. It subsidises artistic projects.

Partners (For the provision of its places of creation and research): Espace Lino Ventura de Torcy (77), Espace Germinal de l’Est Valdoisien in Fosses (95), Théâtre de la Chapelle Saint-Louis in Rouen (76), Forum in Falaise (14), Espace Viking in Yvetot (76), Rayon Vert in Saint Valery en Caux (76).